Division of the Provost

Community Engagement Grants

The University of Tasmania's Community Engagement Grants are designed to support staff involvement in community engagement activities between UTAS and any external entities, such as individuals, community groups, professional bodies, business and industry, schools, government agencies and non-government organisations at the local, state, national and international levels.

The Academic Division is pleased to launch its Schools Engagement Grant Pilot as an extension of the Community Engagement funding initiatives facilitated by the Community, Partnerships and Regional Development’s portfolio.Staff members are invited to apply for a mid-year (2017) round of engagement grants, specifically focused on schools engagement. The grants are designed to support UTAS staff to achieve the University’s strategic goals, as outlined in Open to Talent. They will also kick-start achievements that align with the aims of the recently adopted Schools Engagement Strategy. The Strategy seeks to expand opportunities for young people, from diverse backgrounds to access well designed and co-ordinated activities and/or programs that support their successful participation in higher education. The grant guidelines and application form can be accessed below:

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Professor Andrew Hills, Faculty of Health;

Professor Nuala Byrne, Faculty of Health;

Doctor Steven Street, Faculty of Health

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A pilot program that works in partnership with various Community Centres, High Schools and not-for-profit organisations to engage adolescent girls from marginalised communities in activities designed to improve health literacy (nutrition and physical activity) and work with participants to apply healthy lifestyle behaviours.

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Stuart Thorn, The Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment

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Community RAP is a collaboratively led program that will offer students between the ages of 10 - 12 years the opportunity to participate in robotics and programming activity as well as introduce them to the suite of Code Club Australia activities.

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The project team made up of staff from both the Centre for Rural Health and UTAS Student Transition & Retention area will partner with the Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) to evaluate current support and engagement strategies to identify additional approaches to best support refugee/migrant students, particularly those undertaking Pre-degree programs/Associate Degrees.

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Site of national significance: Tiagarra, is the second oldest Aboriginal Museum and Keeping Place in Australia and the oldest resident structure. This project will undergo a thoroughly iterative participatory design process that will provide Tiagarra stakeholders with rich opportunities to couple their views and ideas with interaction technology and technology design experts. The outcome of this co-design partnership will employ ICT as a means of enhancing visitor-museum interactions.

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Arising from the Bright Idea's Festival, the University project team will pursue the thinking around how communities of the West Coast of Tasmania can use their unique and innovative skills to explore how A in STEAM (Science, Technology, Art and Maths) might generate ideas to benefit their communities.

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Doctor Robert Clarke, Professor Paul Turnbull,

Doctor James Chase, College of Arts and Law;

Doctor Nicholas Hookway, College of Arts and Law

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A community education program that offers the Northern Tasmanian community with an opportunity to access the University's intellectual capital and sample tertiary level learning by accessing a range lectures developed around the Humanities and Social Science disciplines.

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Dr Glen Hodges will lead an ensemble to tour various regional centres to both showcase the Conservatorium of Music's expertise and encourage dialog amongst regional practitioners on their own activities in the rich discipline of contemporary music composition.

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Doctor Kaz Ross, College of Arts and Law;

Doctor Taufiq Tanasaldy, College of Arts and Law;

Doctor Nicole Tarulevicz, College of Arts and Law

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In partnership with Kickstart Arts at the Creative Living Park (CLP, Hobart), the program will develop and deliver workshops, seminars and film screenings around the theme of Asia: Ritual, Belief and Healing, to inform and foster community participation.

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Lucy Bleach, College of Arts & Law;

John Vella, College of Arts & Law

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Live Site Catalyst (LSC) frames a suite of regional community-based activities, that build directly on the Triabunna Urban Design Study Report. These activities aim to continue to enable and empower communities through significant research.